Friday, May 13, 2011

Administrative

Blogger was out of order for much of Thursday and Friday (May 12-13). It is now operational, though some data still requires restoration. For any of you who care to read it, there's more information from Blogger / Google here. This makes me worry about backup.

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I am a dedicated user of Blogger and while I'm not exactly worried about backup, once a month I do make a local backup of my blogs; there's an easy download option on the Basic Settings page. I do have some content I would be sorry to lose since I use blogs as rough drafts for future books. So, I am glad Google introduced that backup options. It's easy to do and makes me feel safer, even though I worry about Blogger less than I do some of the other hosted services on which I rely (especially Flickr, given the precarious status of Yahoo as an Internet company these days).

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.